Senior Software Development Engineer

 8x8, Inc. (NASDAQ: EGHT) believes that CX limits were meant to be shattered. We connect people and organizations through seamless communication on the industry's most integrated platform for Customer Experience—combining Contact Center, Unified Communications, and CPaaS APIs. The 8x8® Platform for CX integrates AI at every level to enable personalized customer journeys, drive operational excellence and insights, and facilitate team collaboration.

We help customer experience and IT leaders become the heartbeat of their organizations, empowering them to unlock the potential of every interaction. With one platform, one ecosystem, and one data model, you can turn every team into a customer-facing team and unify your CX to conquer the complexity.  

As an organization, we are looking for Team8s who are AI-proficient, open to innovation, and skilled in leveraging AI for efficiency and growth.

Learn more on our company website at www.8x8.com follow our pages on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.

Are you ready to take on an exciting opportunity as a Senior Software Engineer for a global messaging platform? If you have experience in developing high-performance, reliable, and globally distributed services, we want to hear from you! We are looking for a talented individual to join our Engineering team in Singapore and play a key role in the design, development, and evolution of our core messaging platform.

Our ideal candidate is a professional with hands-on experience with high-throughput, scalable, distributed systems in production, who can demonstrate excellent organization, strong problem-solving, and decision-making skills.

Responsibilities:

As a Senior Software Development Engineer, you will have the opportunity to expand our platform by designing and developing new RESTful APIs and backend microservices. You will also have the chance to optimize and improve the performance of the platform, ensuring the highest quality with unit tests, and participating in integration test design. Collaboration with the product team on requirements is also a key part of this role.

Experiences:

• Professional software development experience.

• Expert knowledge of .NET Core and C#.

• Strong practical experience with ASP.NET Core

• Understanding of RESTful web services and microservices architecture.

• Proficiency in multi-threaded application development and async programming.

• Experience with queue engines like RabbitMQ or Kafka.

• Working experience with SQL and NoSQL databases.

• Experience with software engineering best practices (unit testing, integration testing, CI/CD).

• Proven experience mentoring junior or mid-level developers

• Encourages peer reviews, knowledge sharing, and coding standards

• Hands-on experience with cloud-platform services

• Designs systems for scalability, fault tolerance, and cost efficiency

• Hands-on experience utilizing cloud platforms to develop scalable and reliable applications, leveraging the power of cloud services for enhanced performance and flexibility.

• A team player who thrives in cross-functional environments, collaborating closely with product team, and stakeholders.

• Willingness to actively engage in discussions, contribute insights and align technical solutions with business objectives.

• Written and verbal fluency in English is required.

Bonus points

• Deep understanding of .NET internals (CLR behavior, memory management, async/await model)

• Familiarity with modern .NET practices
• Exposure to DevOps practices is a big bonus

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